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Changing the Game

Althea Gibson Biography Author: Sue Davidson
Paperback · June 1997
192 Pages

FROM THE EDITORS:
Written in a lively, readable style, this book profiles two women who broke new ground in tennis.

Alice Marble (1913-1990) became the first woman to play "power tennis", and by 1939 had won several Wimbledon titles.

Gibson broke the racial "color line" in tennis by entering many previously white-only tournaments, and became the first black person to win both the U.S. Open and Wimbledon competitions.

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